Cuff-fastener.



S. FRIEDMANN.

CUFF FASTENBR.

APPLICATION FILED 00124, 1012.

1,072,1 10. Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

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SAMUEL FBIEDMANN, OFBALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CUFF-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1913.

Application filed. October 24, 1912. Serial No. 727,503.

To all whom it may concern,

Be it known that I, SAMUEL FRIEDMANN, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cuff-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cuff fasteners and has reference to a fastener wherein the vertical edges of the cuff are engaged in alinement whlle the fastener is re tained in position by means which engages the alined button-holes of the cuff.

The invention is illustrated in the acco1npanying drawing in which,

Figure 1, shows the lower portion of a shirt sleeve with an attached cutf--the latter being engaged by my improved cufi' fastener. Fig. 2, shows a plan or edge view of the detached fastener. Fig. 3, illustrates the san1e,-the cuff being indicated by broken lines and the button hole engaging devices are shown in the position they would have when engaging a cuff. Fig. 1 is a vertical sectional detail through the fastener,-- the section being taken on the line 4.-4= of Fig. 2. Fig. 5, illustrates an end elevation of one end of the fastener with the buttonhole engaging device turned as when engaging a cuff. Fig. 6, shows a perspective view of the same, and Fig. 7 illustrates perspeetively the shank which projects through the botton-hole and to which the engaging devices are attached.

Referring to the drawing the numeral, 1, designates a plate having a fold, 2, therein so as to produce two side members, 3, and, 1, respectively. These side members may or may not be alike in shape, outline or ornamentation but in the present instance they are presumed to be alike.

Each side member is provided at its inner side with a stud or post, 5, which latter has a groove, 6, which extends substantially parallel with its inner edge, 7, and which also has a vertical slot, 8, in said edge which slot extends through the said groove, 6, as clearly shown in Fig. 7, of the drawing. perforation, 9, is also provided in each stud between the groove, 6, and the plate member to which the stud is attached, for a pur pose which will presently be explained.

Each stud has two pivoted engaging devices, 10, by means of which the fastener is engaged with a cuff. The form of these engaging devices which I prefer is shown best in Figs. 5 and 6 wherein it will be seen that each device comprises a quadrant-frame having two bars, 11, and, 12, respectively at right angles with respect to each other and the outer. ends of which bars are connected by a segment bar, 18.

By preference the bar, 12, of each quadrant-frame is square or angular in crosssection, so that each flat side may be utilized as-a bearing surface for the frame when the latter is turned to one or another of its sev eral positions.

A flat spring plate, 14:, is secured on the flat side of each stud by means of a rivet, 15, and each spring plate has a finger, 16, which projects over the bar, 12, and between the bars, 11, and, 13, of the quadrant frame so as to normally seat one or another of the Hat or square surfaces of the said bar, 12.

By referring to Fig. (5, it will be noted that one frame, 10, is turned down while the other is turned up, which is the position they would have when engaging a cuff. In this Fig. 6, one finger, 1.6, of the spring plate is projected between the bars, 11, and, 13, and is shown resting upon a flat side of bar, 12, so as to hold said bar in an upright position and at the same time prevent said frame from moving longitudinally of the groove, 6, in which it is seated. The other finger of said spring plate in said Fig. (5, is shown seated on a flat side of bar, 12, of the other frame so as to press the inner side bar down on the flat bottom of the groove, 6, and hold said other frame in a pendant position below the stud.

In the application of the fastener to a cult, 17 the vertical edges, 18, of the cuff are brought together in alinement and the fastener is passed over the alined vertical edges at that point where the ordinary button holes (not shown in the drawings) are located. The engaging devices, 10, on the studs of the two plate members, 3, and, 4, having been turned so as to extend at right. angles with respect to the plate members, 3, and, 1, are then passed through the button holes of the cuff,thc two engaging devices on one plate being projected through one button-hole of the cuff and the engaging devices on the other plate being projected through the other button-hole of the cuff. After the engaging devices have been projected through the respective button-holes those devices on one stud may be turned as shown in Fig. 6,-one in one direction away from the button-hole and the other in a reverse direction with respect to said buttonhole. When the engaging devices have been turned to lock the fastener t0 the cuff the vertical edges, 18, will be held in alinement and the two plate members, 3, and, 4t, Will impart a V-shap'e to the cuff at the open side of the latter which isdesirable and Without requiring the closed side of the cl-ifi' to be creased or crushed to maintain the desired shape. I

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A cuii -fastener comprising a V-shaped: plate tofor n diverging side members the inner side of each of said side members having a stud with a cross-groove extending along, one face of the stud adjacent to its inner edge said grooves being formed with:

angular ing a central slot in its inner edge which device seated in the cross-groove at one side of the intersecting central slot, another engaging device seated in the said cross-groove at the other side of said central slot, and both engaging devices having confronting bar's extending a right angle Withrespect to the cross-groove, andboth of the confrontplate carried on ones-id-e of each stud j and elosing the; cross-groove at that side and said yielding plates contacting with. said en: E gaging devices; v Y 7 In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature presence of two witnesses,

' SAMUEL FRIEDMANN. Witnesses;

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slot intersects the cross-groove; an engaging ing bars extending through the said central 7 slot in the edgeof thestud, and a yield-ing 

